The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1887-10-27
OHIO's FOOL GOVERNOR.
The philadelphia Press Cuts Up
Poor Little Foraker.
A Big Gubernatorial Fool For the Grea'
State of Ohio-Some of His Marrow
Minded Schemes and Meth
DDS Openly Exposed

PuILADELHIIA, PA, Oct. 2l.-Spec
iaI1-The Time ssays editorlauy: "Ih'
fact that Ohio is u very big State is m
good reason why she should have aYerl
bio fool for governor, but she has ON
ali the same. There is no law, funua'
mental or statutory, against man pc
ing fool, or against a governor Oelllp
a fool. or against any State electing
fool for her chief magistrate; anu Slle
fact that Ohio chooses TO nave sucll d
fool as Foraker for governor ~, Is NO
body's business but her own. TO peo-
plo who like such a governor ne Is !us'
the sort OF governor such peopie my I'M
and it being wholly matter OF JaSIe
Ohio is not to be criticised tOr hei
choice. rOL..
that Governor Foraker lashes himself
into fury once week or ottener, OVel
some imaginary insult or slight to the
American flag or to himself, nor has
the outside world any right to bother
about Governor Foraker stopping over
in insulting kilograms, ostenCaJlOuSly
riven to the public, to the President Oh
fbe United States, refusing to surren-
der the Ohio captured flags which no
bodV thought of asking for and Whlch
we're not referred to by any order or
suggestion of the national government,
1t IS peculiarly Governor
FoRAKER's PRERoGATIyE TO sLoP
OVER,
to be ridiculous, to pose as 1901 ana
to offend every instinct of courtesy or
even of decenCy in all matters of winch
ha can speak as executive OF ONO
Ohio is his State: Ohio has defeated
him for governor: Ohio has elected shlm
governor, and the question OF having, a
1icturesuue fool for governor IS solely
a mestiOn for Ohio 50 long as Foraker
is in Ohio; but when Ohio's governor
GETS outside of his State, where the
1roprieties and decenCies of public and
RriVate life are respected, both the big
State and the big fool governor are
obnoxious to criticism.
Governor Foraker has exhausted ms
rather limited intellectual resources
lately to heap indecent insult upon Ine
President of the United States. Dy
public telegram he falsely accused Cne
President of proposing to return Une
captured flags i'll the custody OF ONO,
and in mendaCiOuS lnsOlence refused
to obey an order that never was issued,
that never was contemplated, and thaC
Governor Foraker knew had never Deen
issued or thought of. 1t was an eXhl-
hilton of the heelGr's clap-trap that
might have made fame for an Old-tlme
Five Points precinct politician, ana 1t
shamed his people and his State Hay
ING committed a superlatiye folly, For
aker next countered on himself by
GUSHING PUBLIC TELEGRAM
inviting the President, "in the name of
the whole people of Ohio" to accept
their hospitality on his western journey;
but a like invitation coming at the
same time from the same State from
Ohio citizens Of decent expression and
repute. the citizens were answered ana
the braWling governor was not. Smart
mo under his Cumulated fOllles, Fora-
kaT next attacked the President i'll his
opening campaign address, in speech 50
coarse and indecent that IT, hau TO De
suppressed in the revised report gwen
to the newspapers, and fresh from mat
achievement, he appeared in FhiIdel-
phia, where all guests were received
with open hearts and generous welcome.
But Foraker had played the fool 50
often and so grossly inSuited his super
iOrs so far as he is capable OF DONG so,
that he resolved to temper his disgrace
NV proclaiming that both the president
and his wife had inSultod Foraker III
the ceremonies Of the constitutional
centennial. First, Foraker had 1t pro
claimed that Mrs. Cleveland turned her
hack upOn OhiOS governor and OhloS
troops when passing thestand, although
it is known that she was Oil the SIahu
at lunch with Mr.. Chllds and the com
mittee at the time. Next, he had IL pro-
claimed that President Cleveland re-
fused recognition to FOrahers salute
when he passed the president ana ali
with him know that the charge is raise.
The president acknowledged Forakers
salute with uncovered head and paid pre-
cisely the same respect to Ohlos Gov
ernor and OhiO's troops that he paid to
all others. Again, he had 1t proclaimed
that Mrs. Cleveland insulted Foraker
and his wife by yrefusing to shake hands
with them when presented, and that IS
persisted in regardless Of the prompt
refutation. of Chairman Thompson,
chairman of the reception committee
and a pronounced Republican, who has
publicly stated that Mrs. Cleveland
Shook hands with all who were pre-
sented, except when he forbade it TO
give her rest from the ceaseless fatigue.
In short. Fool Foraker, touched by u
sense of shame for his fOllies when
away from home, insists upon
MANUFACTURING INDECENCIEs
for those who respect the proprieties of
public and private life, to make his
fool record comparatively respectable.
If Governor Foraker located these
alleged limitations Of his own f0llies in
Ohio it would be of no consequence,
but he locates them in Philadelphia and
upon the most distinguished of Phila-
diephia's hundreds Of thousands OF wei
come guests, and that is why Phlladel-
phia must notice them. lie takes no
note of the admitted fact that it was
the colonel of Ohio regiment who figured
as the only officer who failed to salute
the President. 1t is now known that it
was an innocent mistake on the part of
the officer but it should have taught
any other than an all-fOOl Governor
not to distOrt even apparent dlscomte-
sizes into vulgar resentments on an oc-
casion when none but the basest
natures could indulge in them. The
fact that the only scandal that cast its
shadow upon an occasion of exceptional
grandeur in the history Of free govern
ment comes from OhiO's fool governor